Holder for toilet-paper.



J. DUNLOP.

HOLDER FOR TOILET PAPER.

APPLICATION HLED ocT. 5, 1915.

1,192,39s. PatentedJuly25,19 16.

JAMES DUINIOP, 0F BRAAMFONTEIN, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA.

HOLDER FOR TOILET-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1916.

Application filed October 5, 1914. Serial No. 865,184.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES DUNLOP, subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 20 Wessell street, Braamfontein, Transvaal, South Africa, engineer, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders for Toilet-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved toilet roll holder of the kind which necessitates the employment of a key before the roll can be removed or a fresh roll placed in the holder.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the example of construction shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the holder in the position it assumes when supporting a roll. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the position of the parts, when ready to receive a roll and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.

1 is a frame which is hinged at its upper end to a plate 2 adapted to be securely attached to a suitable back board or support.

' The frame 1' has at its lower end two out- I the arms 5 and 7 wardly extending arms each of which is provided with a sleeve or socket 3 and extending between these sleeves 3 is a tube 4.

Extending for a short distance within one end of the tube 4 and securely fixed therein is the'upper end of the arm 5 of the holder, which upper end is bent at right angles to the main and depending portion thereof, while adapted to slide Within the tube 4, from the other end thereof, is a rod 6 formed or provided at its outer end with a second depending arm 7 of the holder which arm 7 coacts with the arm 5 to hold the roll; the free ends of the arms being turned inwardly toward each other and provided with a rotatable roller 8 adapted to enter the ends of the tubular core upon which toilet paper is usually wound, or the said ends of may be provided with other suitable means to engage and rotatably support the roll.

Formed in the top of the tube 4 is a longitudinal slot through which a pin or stud 9 fixed to the rod 6 projects. The slot is of a suitable length to allow the arm 7 to be moved far enough away from the arm 5 to enable a roll to be removed without the rod being withdrawn from the tube, in which position the tube at the outer end of the slot forms an abutment to the pin 5, the slot extending far enough in the other direction to allow of the arm 7 being moved toward the arm '5 to engage the roll between the two arms, in which latter position the pin 9, contacts with the tube at the inner end of the slot.

In order (when a. roll is placed in posi- -tionbetween the said arms 5 and 7) to prevent the removal of the roll, there is provided on the frame 1 above the tube 4, a locking device comprising a vertically movable bolt 10 sliding in a casing 11 securely attached to the frame 1 as by rivets or by screws and nuts as shown, said bolt being normally pressed in a downward direction by a helical spring 12 the lower end of the bolt passing through an aperture in casing 11 and through the slot in the tube 4, and entering a recess 13 (Fig. 2) in the rod 6 when the said rod is slid to the extent of its movement within the tube, as shown in Fig. 1 in position for the arms to engage the roll, the arms can therefore not be moved apart again until the bolt 10 is withdrawn from the recess 13.

For the purpose of raising the bolt 10 it is provided within the casing with an arm 14 with which coacts the end of a lever 15 carried by a boss 16, rotatably supported in the front and rear walls of the casing 11, this boss 16 being formed with a square hole open to the outside of the casing for the reception of a key, by means of which the boss is rotated and the bolt 10 raised against the action of the spring 12 through the medium of the lever 15 and arm 14, thus allowing the rod 6 to be slid in an outward direction during which sliding the bolt 10 rests on the said rod 6. A spring 17 is-arranged in the socket 3 and acts'to normally hold the arm 7 and roller 8 in the position shown in Fig. 2.

It will be obvious that any other suitable construction of key operated lock may be employed.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a holder for rolls of toilet paper a bracket adapted to be secured to a support, a frame hingedly connected to this bracket, a pair of sockets at the lower ends of this hinged frame a tubular connection between these sockets, a depending arm secured in the tubular connection in the socket at one end of the frame and an inturned end to this depending arm carrying a roller adapted to engage in one end of the roll of toilet paper; a second depending arm with inturned end carrying a roller adapted to engage in the other end of the roll' of toilet paper, a horizontal member at the upper end of this depending arm slidably engaged in the tubular connection in the other socket on the hinged frame so thatthe two depending arms with their inturned ends and rollers are located opposite to one another, a coil spring around the horizontal member of the slidable depending arm located in the socket at that end of the hinged frame and adapted to press the slidable arm away from the fixed arm to allow of the placing of slidable arm to lock same in position when the said slidable arm has been pressed inward to secure the roll of toilet paper;

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES DUN LOP.

Witnesses:

EDWIN N. GUNsAULUs, 5 LILIAN F. HELLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the commissioner, of Patents,

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